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ticable speed, cause the carcase thereof to be disinfected on board 
the vessel in such mode as the Privy Council from time to time 
direct or approve. 
If he fails to do so, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence 
against this Order. 
6. If any person throws or places, or causes or suffers to be 
thrown or placed, into or in any river, stream, canal, or other 
water in Great Britain, or into or in the sea within three miles of 
the shore of Great Britain, the carcase of an animal (including u 
horse) which has died of or been slaughtered in consequence of 
being affected with a contagious or infectious disease, he shall be 
deemed guilty of an offence against this Order^ unless he shows 
to the satisfaction of the Justices before whom he is charged that 
he did not know that the same had so died or been slaughtered, 
and that he could not with reasonable diligence have obtained 
that knowledge. 
7. It shall not be lawful for any person, except with the licence 
of the Privy Council, to dig up, or cause to be dug up, the 
carcase or any part of the carcase of any such animal (including 
a horse) buried under a regulation of a Local Authority or under 
the direction of a Beceiver of Wreck. 
If any person acts in contravention of this Article he shall be 
deemed guilty of an offence against this Order. 
(Signed) Arthur Helps. 
IMPORTATION OP ANIMALS PROM BELGIUM. 
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 15th day of July, 
1872. By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy 
Council. Present—Lord President, Mr. Porster. 
The Lords and others of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy 
Council, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in them vested 
under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869 (in this 
Order referred to as the Act of 1869), and of every other power 
enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered, 
as follows:— 
1. This Order shall take effect from and immediately after the 
eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- 
two ; and words in this Order have the same meaning as in the 
Act of 1869. 
2. The Order bearing date the eighth day of December, one 
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, prohibiting the landing 
in Great Britain of cattle, manure, and hay, and regulating tho 
landing in Great Britain of sheep, goats, and certain articles 
brought from any place in Belgium or Prance, is hereby revoked 
